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KEEPING UP WITH THE JOANS |
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China kicked the Mongols out of Tibet to put the 7th of these in power; now, the relationship is more contentious with the 14th |
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As Chili Palmer, this actor noted, "Rough business, this movie business... I may have to go back to loansharking" |
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"My Year in a Women's Prison" is the subtitle of this memoir by Piper Kerman |
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A New York Times TV critic once described her as "possibly the most intuitively funny woman alive" |
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In 1655 England's John Wallis came up with the sideways 8 symbol for this |
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If you take someone into your this, you are trusting them not to reveal what's been said |
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Players of this forerunner of bridge could consult a popular 1742 rule book |
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In 2020's "Mank", about the writing of "Citizen Kane", Amanda Seyfried plays this actress |
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This slim volume by Strunk & White lays out some rules of grammar & usage |
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In 2017 this singer of "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame |
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Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is the name of a founder of non-this geometry |
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Laughter spreading in a crowd is often described as this, which, in a clinical sense, means transmitted by contact |
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Uneasy about federal intrusions, Rhode Island was the only state not to send a representative to this May-September 1787 gathering |
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As cops roll up mid-scene in this 1994 film about a director, Johnny Depp realizes, "We don't have a permit! Run!" |
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"World of Wonders" mentions the glimmer-pop of this insect on a summer night |
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Like Willem de Kooning & Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell was a leading figure in this 2-word art movement |
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Also known as Leonardo of Pisa, he knew a lot of numbers, not just 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 |
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"A" is for this word meaning "without concealment" , in contrast with gamblers whose hands went under the card table |
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Seen here as a model, the post--this word from the French--was the first comfortable wheeled land transport |
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In 1978 this mustachioed actor was the title character in "Hooper", billed as "The Greatest Stuntman Alive" |
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"Metamorphosis" covers the storied career of this Hollywood makeup legend seen here |
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She ranks Number 10 on AFI's list of the Greatest American Female Screen Legends |
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Henri Poincaré pioneered this math branch that studies the deformation of objects into new shapes without any cutting or pasting |
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There's a term for a lover of his country in this 10-letter word for a fellow countryman |
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The Rev.William Tennent, pastor of Freehold, N.J., helped launch this "Great" religious revival |
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A single-shot take that lasts about 8 minutes opens this 1992 film about a movie exec played by Tim Robbins |
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He tackles Obama's legacy in "We Were Eight Years in Power" |
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"The Center Will Not Hold", a documentary by nephew Griffin Dunne, is a portrait of this iconic author & essayist |
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This 19th century German, whose name is a unit of magnetism, was known as Princeps mathematicorum, "Prince of Mathematicians" |
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Shizuoka is this, a Japanese jurisdiction, partly from the Latin for "before" |
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